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11 cze 2020 · The history of the flag since 1865 is marked by the accumulation of additional meanings based on additional uses. Within a decade of the end of the war (even before the end of Reconstruction in 1877), white Southerners began using the Confederate flag as a memorial symbol for fallen heroes.
1 mar 2006 · John M. Coski has given us a well-researched, clearly written history of the Confederate battle flag and how it became “America's most embattled emblem.”. Coski begins with the wartime emergence and postbellum enshrinement of the white-starred, blue St. Andrew's cross on a red field as the hallowed symbol not so much of a separate nation ...
26 sie 2024 · The Confederate battle flag, initially authorized for units of the Confederate armed forces during the American Civil War (1861–1865), has become one of the most recognized, misunderstood, and controversial symbols in American history. Originally designed as a Confederate national flag by William Porcher Miles of South Carolina, it was ...
Confederate Congressman William Porcher Miles suggested that the army have a distinct battle flag. General Pierre T. Beauregard chose a variation on the cross of St. Andrew. The battle flag features a blue cross, edged with a white band on a red field.
1 lip 2009 · In his important new book, The Confederate Battle Flag, John M. Coski shows how it got that way. The battle flag, though not the official banner of the Confederacy, emerged over the course of the war as the sentimental favorite among Confederate soldiers and civilians alike.
26 cze 2015 · The Confederate national flag was the official flag of the Confederacy. The flag that southern capitols fly today was a Northern Virginia battle flag.
23 cze 2015 · A hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag is displayed widely in the American South, but it could soon come down from in front of South Carolina's...
